i love style needs to get their hair did

ugh i meant 'im NOT sure it would work in the future'

im pretty sure it might though!

So speaking of hair, I have started trying this "conditioner wash" fad all the kids are talking about and it's really working! Let me tell you about it.

I have wavy but not really curly hair, and it's about as long as it's been in like seven years. I only washed my hair ever other/every three days but , I noticed my hair was just really, really dry and awful after I washed it. I tried washing it less often, but my scalp would get too greasy and also flaky. I tried different shampoos and different conditioners to no avail. Then I noticed that my newly adopted "winter conditioner" (Bumble and Bumble Creme de Coco) was really weirdly sudsy so I tried "conditioner washing"... and it worked! My hair was clean, but not all frizzy crazy, and the wavy parts looked very soft and bouncy. You do have to use a little more conditioner for washing than for just conditioning, and Bumble and Bumble is expensive, so I tried this with my "summer conditioner" (Suave Coconut) and that works just as well.

Now I wash my hair once a week with regular shampoo, and then conditioner wash every other day/every third day, depending on what I have going on.

Note: I had tried this conditioner washing in the past and it was disastrous. I have no idea what is different this time, unless it's just my entire body desiccating with age.

THE END

interesting! i have similar hair and have tried conditioner washing too and results were meh
but it's true though - our bodies change/desiccate (lol) with age!
my current hair cair routine is aveda brilliant shampoo + khiel's olive fruit conditioner + khiel's silk group on barely towel-dried hair every other day and it seems to work really well!

ARGGGHGH I had the Brilliant shampoo and it turned my hair to yea veritable straw but I forced myself to use the whole thing because it was pricey, when I should have given it to you!

aw! i buy it in the giant bottle with pump even! it's also one of the only shampoos that doesn't cause my scalp to break out - but obv to each her own, eh!

after a bad haircut a few weeks ago i am considering something drastic. it's not SO horrible but i just feel like going and getting a really great, detailed cut by someone really good. and i think to fix this cut you'd have to take off a bit of length so maybe i should just take off a lot? who knows. can't decide!

btw i have tried a few different bumble and bumble products in the last few months (Travel size bottles) and i think... i don't like any of them. somehow they make my hair feel less moisturized? or greasy. but nothing in between.

My hairdresser told me not to bother with Bumble & Bumble shampoos - she said their styling products are good but the shampoos etc aren't worth it at all. I tried John Freida conditioner for blondes as well and it made my hair look so dull. I am working through a massive bottle of Pantene which I'm sure isn't great but I get paralysed by choice when I decide to get expensive stuff.

I really liked John Frieda for redheads but I never see it anymore. I bought like ten bottles at the dollar store (for $10! A dream.) and used those for a year, but my supply ran out. ;_;

i got travel sizes of a few bumble styling products and i don't much care for them either!

T, I think a mid-length bob would suit you a lot. You don't have a ton of layers at the moment, right? - or those you have are pretty long?

Although I have not been seeing him since I went long and wavy, I really do love Gregg (two "g"s) at PR&Partners for great bobs. Would never have left him had I not converted to a more wash-and-wear style.

TBH wash and wear is just NAsG a L as those precision bobs that Gregg with two "g"s gave me, but yeah well lyfe and all, I am desiccating and lazy.

My beloved hair stylist (and her beloved predecessor) both insisted that Bumble and Bumble Thickening, which is super light and does nothing, is the conditioner for me and I hate that stuff. I'm always on the lookout for a good super moisturizing conditioner for the Dry Times of Winter. The sudsy B&B is working out okay but it's not the old "holy grail" or anything.

bumble & bumble surf spray is great, also i use a little bit of the sumotech hair wax (though the scent of it is horrible imo, luckily doesn't seem to last)

i second the recommendation for kiehl's olive oil conditioner.. they give out lots of samples, might try that?

I like the idea of olive oil… thanks, I'll check it out!

i've done a lot of angled bobs in the past and i like them, i've just enjoyed having longer hair that you can put up easily if so desired (and it's way easier for exercising). but blahhh this cut.

my old hair stylist always recommended using olive oil as an occasional treatment!

my hair has adjusted so well to fewer washings, i can easily go a week without BUT my scalp won't let me - it's gets flaky (nagl) and itchy, although for some reason the itchiness is only at night before going to sleep.

i also dyed my hair a darkish brown and remembered how much better i look with this colour, more so than my natural mousy brown. i'm just so lazy about doing it regularly.

any recommendations for a good rinse?

i use the clairol semi-permanent, and the one i bought comes with a little packet of 'refresher' - similar to a coloured shampoo i guess?

My so-called permanent hair colour is lightening.

my hair is the longest it's been since I was 14. It looks kinda bitchin' when it's freshly cleaned & dried and falls just right but otherwise it's approaching crazed bird nest territory. kinda love it but it's almost June and it's gonna be too much humidity to have this much hair, plus I gotta get my picture took soon. RIP badass style-blind hesher look I have dug you for almost a year

RIP.

I need some hair cuts. Kind of tempted to grow it so I can put it up but long hair and I don't mix well.

I need a hair cut too! There's no way I can go back to work with a beard and long hair. I want to keep the beard so I think I'll just shave my hair off, maybe an inch short.

That would look pretty awesome with that epic beard imo.

will do tomorrow

My hair is pretty long now, too, so I rocked a side pony today.

Anybody familiar with using "Monchichi" to describe a hair style? My friend and I had been using it since 1989 and I figured we picked it up from somewhere yet when I have used it, no one else seems to know what I am talking about.

You mean like the little monkey things?

http://my2roots.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/monchichi.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monchhichi

I think Monchichis are cute!

Yes! Used to describe a small forehead made even smaller by a low hairline. Both my friend and I have small foreheads and there doesn't seem to be any getting around it. I part my hair to the side and the bangs I have been growing out since 2005 are finally long enough to stay behind my ear giving me a monchichi. Pulling my hair back offers some relief.

After looking at Rita Hayworth's once incredible monchichi forehead and reading how electrolysis was used to raise her hairline, I decided to try that out. I didn't use electrolysis though, I just waxed it off and spent eight months dealing with the embarrassing and disastrous results.

I am getting a cut at 12:30 and I don't know what to ask for! Should I keep the long boring easy look or go for something daring? Decisions!

Daring. Interesting is more important than pretty. :)

What's wrong with Rita Hayworth's forehead in that picture?!

tza you should keep it long and easy, but i am always going to say that because i can't have long hair.

(i agree that interesting > pretty but there are lots of ways to be interesting)

There are lots of ways to be pretty, too, of course--and T certainly will be pretty whatever she does to her hair. I'm about to go even shorter, though, because on the 90-degree and 100% humidity days, it cannot touch me or my face at all.

Yeah, my concern is that in summer I MUST be able to have ponytails and I end up washing it more often bc of outdoor exercise, pools, etc. but my look definitely needs an update so I feel stuck! I like the word "interesting" - maybe I will use this with stylist and see what she says!

Laurel, I feel you. The length of your hair at your last cut, while gorgeous, is probably my least favorite hair length for myself because 1) it's not long enough to pull back; 2) it's too long to be short enough to not get in my way; and 3) I end up washing it too much because there's not as much room for error. Basically I can handle short or long but anything in between makes me antsy.

tehresa, how about the same length but a different shape? Or some layers? (haha I typed "lawyers" - do NOT put lawyers in your hair.) If you don't have bangs, you could get bangs.

Laurel, I feel you. The length of your hair at your last cut, while gorgeous, is probably my least favorite hair length for myself because 1) it's not long enough to pull back; 2) it's too long to be short enough to not get in my way; .

― carl agatha, Friday, June 1, 2012 10:42 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is my problem with my hair to a T. It's why I cut it all off a couple summers ago. I'm not willing to go that route again but not sure what else to do. I HATE YOU HOT WEATHER.

This is my goal for next cut, actually:

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/LimitedLiabilityGirl/Shorthair.jpg

oh that's going to look awesome

god i need to leave this town so i can get a decent haircut

yeah that'll be cute. you have good hair and can do whatever you want with it!

I've had very similar cuts before. I'm a fan! I think that'll look great.

highly recommend AGAINST bangs for summer. I am thinking bangs will be in my future, but not until fall weather!

Laurel that haircut is awesome.

Yeah bangs stuck to a sweaty forehead are nagl

Yay the stylist was not terrible! Ended up bringing layers up a little for volume, but she also showed me how to make a nice wave with a curling iron in like 5 min. Hope I can recreate it!

Is it normal to get grey roots with semi-permanent hair color? It's been two or three weeks since the last coloring, and I have 3/4 inch long roots (3/4 inch on each side). I thought that you weren't supposed to get roots with semi-permanent color? Or is it that my hair just grows unnaturally fast?